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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://homepage.mac.com/soapdog/iblog.html&quot;&gt;iBlog&lt;/a&gt; you blog we all blog for iBlog." created="Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:51:05 GMT"/>
		<outline text="George Ma, who I &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/11/22/aWebThanksgiving#thanks&quot;&gt;thanked&lt;/a&gt; in the Thanksgiving DaveNet, writes to say that he was frustrated in his evangelism on behalf of weblogs inside Apple. To George and all other natural-born technology evangelists, it's like being a Mets fan. You don't give up. You keep going. When someone says no, you just say OK, let me tell you &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt; why you have to do this. No is an OK answer, it just means they want to hear the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=spiel&quot;&gt;schpiel&lt;/a&gt; one more time before saying Yes." created="Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:54:50 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Now it's not like being a Red Sox fan. Mets fans know that some day we will win it all. Red Sox fans must know, by now, that it ain't gonna happen." created="Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:57:29 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/optimistic&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future?&quot;" created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:40:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://altis.manilasites.com/stories/storyReader$25&quot;&gt;Kevin Altis&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Regardless of what inroads Java may have made with backends and embedded into products like Oracle or a large variety of cross-platform non-GUI solutions, it still sucks for building GUI apps.&quot;" created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:31:49 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1436-2001Nov22.html&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;At least one antivirus software company, McAfee Corp., contacted the FBI on Wednesday to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software and alert a criminal suspect.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Earlier this morning I rolled up a new version of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/&quot;&gt;UserLand&lt;/a&gt; home page. It was a collaborative effort among many of the people at UserLand and now, perhaps for the first time, reflects how we really view ourselves. Is 13 years too long to wait for this? Apparently not. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:01:52 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/11/26/011126opcurve.xml&quot;&gt;Steve GIllmor&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Java won.&quot; Steve's story is right on. Sun is clinging to an old view of the world, one where Java would become the &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1999/09/12/anEndToTheUberoperatingSystem&quot;&gt;Uber-Operating-System&lt;/a&gt;. If that vision had been realized, &lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/rmi/&quot;&gt;RMI&lt;/a&gt; would have been fine, because all code would be running in Java, a Java-to-Java wire would get you everywhere you want to go. " created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:53:43 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Steve is right, Java &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; win, it's here to stay, lots of developers use and love it, but it &lt;i&gt;didn't&lt;/i&gt; succeed at sucking all life in the developer world into its confines. Keeping the Java developers in the Sun box is not a good idea, because as some developers love Java, others love Perl, Python, etc. (The etc part is pretty big too.) " created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:21:46 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Imho, Java will grow even more if developers can cross the bridges at will, without converting all their code. But this has always been the argument betw Sun and developers. Sun says &quot;Convert all your code.&quot; Some developers did. Others didn't. That's the battleground that Sun and Microsoft have yet to conquer. In politics the Democrats and Republicans fight over the middle, in software politics, they ignore the power of the middle, for now." created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:22:06 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1672000/1672220.stm&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Somalia's only internet company and a key telecoms business have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links.&quot;" created="Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:05:16 GMT"/>
		<outline text="We're having power-outage weather here. Wind is gusting, it's pouring rain. Nothing to do but wait for the lights to go out. "/>
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